Frank Rice
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Balding, long-necked character actor Frank Rice made his earliest screen appearance in 1922. In talkies, Rice often appeared in comic bit roles, many of which -- notably the butler in Laurel and Hardy's Pack up Your Troubles (1932) -- afforded him the... more
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Cast: Alan James Cecilia Parker Ken Maynard Hal Taliaferro Jack Rockwell
Length: 63min
Though filmed on a tight budget, Universal's Trail Drive has the size and scope of a silent western epic, proof positive of the production acumen of star Ken Maynard. The story concerns (what else) a cattle drive, with Maynard cast as head drover. The...
Cast: Buck Jones Fred Kohler J.P. McGowan Nick Grinde Edward Keane
Length: 56min
Westerner Buck Jones heads to the Great White North in Border Brigands. Jones plays Canadian Mountie Tim Barry, who always gets his man. This time, however, he's forced to cross the border into the United States -- apparently without permission -- to...
Cast: Charlotte Wynters Buck Jones Carl Stockdale Ray Taylor Walter Miller
Length: 60min
In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began when someone began stealing their livestock. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Alan James Ken Maynard Hal Taliaferro Jack Rockwell Frank Rice
Tags: Western
Length: 63min
In this western, a miner heads back East and ends up traveling with a wagon train. He carries with him a map of his recently discovered claim. Among his comrades is a group of outlaws planning to ambush the train so they can get hold of the map. To do...
Cast: Ken Maynard Fred Kohler Jack Rockwell Frank Rice Bob McKenzie
Tags: Musical Western Action Adventure Western
Length: 65min
In this musical western, everybody sings, even the outlaws. The story follows a government agent who goes undercover as a musical ventriloquist named Fiddlin' to find an ruthless outlaw and his gang. The gang comes to Fiddlin's town, commits a robbery...
Cast: Buck Jones George B. Seitz Ward Bond Dorothy Revier Frank Rice
Length: 60min
The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. When Jones' kid brother is killed by the villains, our hero quits the Texas Rangers and sets off to seek vengeance on his own. He ends up just below the...
The Phantom Thunderbolt (1933)
Cast: Ken Maynard Alan James Bob Kortman Merrill McCormack Nelson McDowell
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 62min
Rivalry between two towns for the honor of becoming county seat turns violent in this interesting Ken Maynard Western from low-budget Sono Art-World Wide. Although a notorious troublemaker, the Thunderbolt Kid (alias Ken Peters (Maynard)), is...
Cast: J.P. McGowan Tim McCoy Roy S. Luby Frank Rice Ben Kline
Length: 59min
Directed by the mediocre J.P. McGowan, Tim McCoy's second Western for Columbia was a rather tedious affair in which McCoy played a cattle rancher who has leased grazing land from his girlfriend's (Virginia Lee Corbin) father (Dick Stewart). The...
Cast: John Wayne J.P. McGowan Henry B. Walthall Leon Schlesinger Mack Wright
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 60min
In this western, John Wayne plays a bronc buster who flees to Mexico after he is falsely accused of rigging a stagecoach race. Living as an outlaw, he joins a gang and finds that the son of his old rodeo boss has been roped into joining them. While...
Cast: B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason Ken Maynard Jack Rockwell Frank Rice Lew Meehan
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
In this western, a cowboy and his sidekick save a woman and her ranch from greedy badguys. The trouble really begins when the varmints kill the sidekick. Gunplay ensues until the villains are vanquished. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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